Ice odyssey leaves truckers cold
Posted: October 10, 2005 7:42 pm
WOW!!! That is some expensive ice and and another expensive lesson for the taxpayers.
Parts of this particular situation are reasonable. Such as storing the ice else where instead of just dumping it out and letting it melt. I dunno if there were not any storage areas closer with capabilities to store such amounts.
A MAJOR thing I fail to understand is why there is no tracking system in place. I would think that would have been of paramount importance, yet as I ( and most us) have seen either firsthand and experienced or heard about, it is beauracracy doing what it does best. Not just in this current goverment but any beauracracy at most any level.
The problem with contracting out in such situations and maintaining people and resources and capability on to deliver the much needed items.
In the meanwhile people continue to suffer, and the taxpayer continues to pay the bill for mistakes that should have been learned and corrected long ago.
The article is long, but there is also an interview that discusses the problems that happened...perhaps at least some of those items will be quickly resolved.....
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Parts of this particular situation are reasonable. Such as storing the ice else where instead of just dumping it out and letting it melt. I dunno if there were not any storage areas closer with capabilities to store such amounts.
A MAJOR thing I fail to understand is why there is no tracking system in place. I would think that would have been of paramount importance, yet as I ( and most us) have seen either firsthand and experienced or heard about, it is beauracracy doing what it does best. Not just in this current goverment but any beauracracy at most any level.
The problem with contracting out in such situations and maintaining people and resources and capability on to deliver the much needed items.
In the meanwhile people continue to suffer, and the taxpayer continues to pay the bill for mistakes that should have been learned and corrected long ago.
The article is long, but there is also an interview that discusses the problems that happened...perhaps at least some of those items will be quickly resolved.....
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